Just The News: Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, is being renamed Tuesday to Fort Cavazos to honor the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general, Richard Edward Cavazos.
Fort Hood was named after Confederate general and Texas Brigade Cmdr. John Bell Hood when the Army post opened in 1942.
Cavazos, a Texas-born veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars whose parents were Mexican-Americans, served in the Army for 33 years before he retired in 1984. He died in 2017 at 88.
“General Cavazos’ combat proven leadership, his moral character and his loyalty to his Soldiers and their families made him the fearless yet respected and influential leader that he was during the time he served, and beyond,” Lt. Gen. Sean Bernabe said.
The Texas post is one of nine U.S. Army bases that are being renamed upon the recommendations of the congressionally-appointed Naming Commission. more here
why not fort sharpton, you fkng assholes?
With the way things are going with the U.S. armed forces, it should be renamed to Fort Maricón.
Naming commission. Just pissing away every last cent.
george floyd medical center, right mofos?
Isn’t this white RaCiSm and nEo NaZi name, Cavasos?
Texas? How about Fort Alamo? Then defend with our lives! Because that is where we will be before our grandkids grow up.
I’m sure that some wise-ass trooper will soon make a nickname for Ft Cavazos from the Spanish “cabezas” (head) or some other derogatory Spanish-to-English word. Count on it.
next, the david a. burke faa center for aviation safety? FKU
Fort Wetback .
I just guzzled a bud lite… now I wear mommy’s clothes to work and I’m an admiral.
When do I get a fort?
More in line with Fort butt f-ck us.
More in line with a 5 star pervert…..
Loser douchebag leftist scum.
Ft. Nidal Hassan
“… Army’s first Hispanic four-star general.”
Funny, I thought the US Army only had AMERICAN four-star generals.
I guess that since Elwood “Pete” Quesada ended up in the Air Force he couldn’t be considered?
These people make me sick.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Fort Invade America!
Levon helm played the ghost General John Bell Hood in the Tommy Lee Jones movie ‘Into The Electric Mist’. Sadly, Levon can’t comment. I’d love to hear it though. Fort Wetback…
Will Hollyweird ever rename the early 1980’s Paul Newman movie Fort Apache The Bronx?
I don’t actually have a problem with this. I looked up General Cavazos and he was certainly no affirmative action hire – having been in the Army before affirmative action was a thing. Cavazos saw combat in the Korean War and later in Vietnam, and was decorated for actions in combat. He seems to have had a favorable reputation in the military.
John Bell Hood was a confederate general who believed in slavery and the inferiority of blacks. He also had a reputation as being prolifigate with the lives of his soldiers.
Being of Hispanic descent probably didn’t hurt in deciding to rename Fort Hood to Fort Cavazos, but Cavazos almost certainly wasn’t a flaming liberal but a decorated combat soldier. I would be more offended if a military base was named Fort Rachel Levine after an admiral mostly known for cross-dressing.
Let’s rename everything on a rotating basis. Two years per sounds good.
Having served numerous stints at Fort Hood, in another life, it was, and forever remains Fort Hood in both heart and mind.
I was fortunate to have occasion to meet R.E. Cavazos, GEN, USA, (Ret), at a civilian event. I very much admire, respect, and liked this comrade in arms. A Puzzle-Palace driven virtue-signalling, knee-jerk, renaming of a historic installation, however, diminishes the man and his accomplishments with this posthumous affirmative action pretense he did not ask for, nor would have ever sought out.
It also completely desecrates the entire reason for the naming of our military institutions, in the first place. After fighting a horrible, decimating, civil war, our then leadership wisely determined that to successfully go forward, as a united republic of these States, wounds must be healed. One way was to recognize the merit and sacrifice of the warriors, on both sides, of that conflict…Americans all.
John Bell Hood was a man much like any other, warts and all, but he was indeed a warrior, a West Point graduate, class of 1853. He served in the U.S. Army until 1861 when his honor and conscience dictated he follow his principles.
I cannot help but compare the naming convention disparities, then and now. The former conciliatory, striving to heal an almost mortally wounded nation. Today? A blatant effort to tear down, wound, destroy, and further drive apart once again increasingly divided nation. Why? To what end?
IATS
TWD
the philanderer mlk has his name on countless streets in what is now new haiti, i don’t see any re-naming efforts.
What!
They didn’t name it after Maj. Nidal Hasan?
So we’re appeasing cartel people instead of ME terrorists now?
Fort Good In Da Hood might discourage more shootings.
Next: Washington DC will be changed to Lenin DC.
ft. workplace violence, like grobama said…
Fort Mulvaney is next.
still impressed by navy “oiler” named after harvey milk. how about the angela davis center for judicial safety? the oj simpson knife recreation association? should play well here in new haiti (formerly america)
The only thing that really ever impressed me about the Navy was an extremely timely flock of A-4s screaming CAS down. Now, that lit our batons and saved our bacon! Of course, they were driven by Gyrines.
IATS
TWD
many accounts of excellent marine/navy cas, going back to ww2